No records in the last 30 days.
175
recorded earthquakes
M7.7
largest
1929–2025
record span
4.67
mean magnitude
14
epicentre inside the border
By year
Stacked by magnitude; one column per year.
M<3M3–4M4–5M5+
Read this chart carefully. Rising columns do not mean earthquakes are becoming more frequent. The monitoring network improved over time: the smallest detectable earthquake in Türkiye was about M5.0 in 1966 and is M1.5 today. Earlier years look quiet because small events were not heard, not because they did not happen.
Largest earthquakes
Inclusion rule: the radius widens with magnitude (15 km up to M4, 150 km at M7 and above). This is not a measure of felt shaking or intensity.
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.7 | 16.07.1990 07:26 | 23.9 km | 120 km |
| 7.6 | 01.08.1968 20:19 | 25.3 km | 79 km |
| 7.2 | 18.03.1977 21:43 | 27.6 km | 80 km |
| 7.2 | 29.12.1949 03:03 | 15 km | 79 km |
| 7.2 | 07.04.1970 05:34 | 27.9 km | 104 km |
| 7.1 | 27.07.2022 00:43 | 22.5 km | 117 km |
| 6.9 | 22.05.1972 06:04 | 30.5 km | 83 km |
| 6.8 | 21.07.1977 13:45 | 40.5 km | 107 km |
| 6.5 | 17.07.1990 21:14 | 26.3 km | 57 km |
| 6.5 | 03.01.1950 02:51 | 30 km | 95 km |
| 6.4 | 03.08.1968 06:25 | 19.5 km | 81 km |
| 6.4 | 31.03.1980 12:41 | 31.2 km | 83 km |
| 6.3 | 05.05.2018 06:19 | 33 km | 89 km |
| 6.3 | 16.01.1929 08:06 | 25 km | 74 km |
| 6.2 | 24.08.1932 12:10 | 35 km | 107 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 10.08.2025 20:22 | 12 km | 18 km |
| 3.0 | 10.04.2025 00:04 | 16 km | 24 km |
| 3.2 | 09.04.2025 23:30 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 3.6 | 09.04.2025 23:21 | 8 km | 31 km |
| 3.7 | 20.12.2024 08:33 | 5 km | 9 km |
| 3.4 | 05.12.2024 17:27 | 13 km | 15 km |
| 3.7 | 02.02.2024 17:01 | 13 km | 28 km |
| 3.1 | 09.09.2023 14:26 | 6 km | 22 km |
| 3.4 | 18.04.2023 14:59 | 188 km | 29 km |
| 3.0 | 06.02.2023 19:32 | 24 km | 25 km |
| 4.5 | 13.09.2022 15:56 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 4.2 | 28.08.2022 04:06 | 32 km | 7 km |
| 7.1 | 27.07.2022 00:43 | 22.5 km | 117 km |
| 4.1 | 16.01.2022 13:57 | 35 km | 35 km |
| 5.0 | 12.01.2022 20:20 | 1 km | 36 km |
| 3.2 | 14.10.2021 16:42 | 1 km | 6 km |
| 4.2 | 04.10.2021 21:31 | 12.9 km | 8 km |
| 3.8 | 18.04.2020 16:54 | 5 km | 17 km |
| 3.5 | 29.12.2019 21:01 | 9 km | 26 km |
| 4.0 | 17.12.2018 04:16 | 21 km | 48 km |
| 4.2 | 04.09.2018 09:39 | 10 km | 26 km |
| 6.3 | 05.05.2018 06:19 | 33 km | 89 km |
| 4.0 | 24.12.2017 23:32 | 32 km | 31 km |
| 4.0 | 15.11.2017 14:30 | 28 km | 31 km |
| 4.1 | 03.10.2017 11:19 | 8 km | 24 km |
| 4.0 | 22.07.2017 14:51 | 27 km | 23 km |
| 4.0 | 22.07.2017 14:38 | 40 km | 9 km |
| 4.4 | 04.07.2017 00:58 | 28 km | 38 km |
| 4.6 | 11.06.2017 15:24 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 4.3 | 14.05.2017 19:50 | 32 km | 29 km |
| 4.2 | 22.04.2017 08:48 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 4.0 | 20.04.2017 20:55 | 33 km | 27 km |
| 4.0 | 06.04.2017 21:31 | 33 km | 0 km |
| 4.0 | 14.11.2016 00:38 | 1 km | 6 km |
| 3.9 | 13.11.2016 23:47 | 32 km | 30 km |
| 4.2 | 13.11.2016 23:47 | 8 km | 23 km |
| 4.0 | 12.09.2016 20:22 | 30 km | 42 km |
| 4.1 | 12.09.2016 19:40 | 31 km | 20 km |
| 4.0 | 02.08.2016 17:04 | 25 km | 14 km |
| 5.2 | 09.06.2016 19:54 | 27.4 km | 54 km |
| 4.4 | 22.03.2016 14:11 | 2 km | 24 km |
| 4.1 | 16.03.2016 23:02 | 9 km | 21 km |
| 4.4 | 16.03.2016 01:34 | 8 km | 20 km |
| 4.3 | 15.03.2016 18:10 | 35 km | 29 km |
| 4.3 | 07.03.2016 11:45 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 4.3 | 16.01.2016 03:53 | 33 km | 33 km |
| 4.0 | 01.01.2016 15:51 | 27 km | 25 km |
| 4.5 | 27.12.2015 18:36 | 20 km | 34 km |
| 4.2 | 05.11.2015 18:03 | 28 km | 44 km |
| 4.1 | 09.10.2015 10:49 | 33 km | 33 km |
| 4.4 | 23.09.2015 13:01 | 23 km | 41 km |
| 4.0 | 08.09.2015 12:46 | 22 km | 42 km |
| 4.5 | 04.09.2015 14:46 | 25 km | 43 km |
| 4.7 | 25.08.2015 09:43 | 22 km | 13 km |
| 4.6 | 01.08.2015 00:06 | 19 km | 21 km |
| 4.5 | 27.07.2015 15:31 | 20 km | 3 km |
| 4.4 | 19.01.2015 22:47 | 29 km | 31 km |
| 4.9 | 21.11.2014 15:53 | 23 km | 27 km |
| 4.4 | 31.08.2014 03:08 | 28 km | 40 km |
| 4.5 | 14.08.2014 17:16 | 24 km | 34 km |
Method and sources
- What this page counts
- An earthquake appears here when its epicentre is within a magnitude-dependent distance of this place's border: 15 km up to M4, 30 km to M5, 60 km to M6, 100 km to M7, and 150 km at M7 and above. The rule exists because a large earthquake concerns neighbouring provinces too — the 17 August 1999 epicentre was in the Gulf of İzmit, on no province's land at all.
- Location precision
- Epicentre uncertainty is typically 1–10 km, and larger for older records. That is why this site breaks data down to districts but not to neighbourhoods or villages — the data does not support that distinction.
- Magnitude scales
- The catalogues use more than twelve magnitude scales (Mw, ML, mb, Md…) and they are not equivalent. Values are shown on the scale the source reported; they are not converted.
- Deduplication
- The same earthquake is published by several catalogues. Records within 20 seconds and 100 km whose magnitudes differ by no more than 1.2 are treated as one event; the primary record is chosen by catalogue priority.
- Updates
- Recent earthquakes are fetched from four sources every five minutes. The historical archive is rebuilt infrequently.
- Sources
- USGS ComCat · ISC Bulletin · AFAD · Kandilli / KOERI · EMSC/CSEM
- Reporting an error
- If you spot a wrong record, write to us; we verify against the source and correct it.